The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-10-14
NO. 8.

h1r. FteBcner having WrlUb6u phul114ob
that pleased the King, the King offered
swered:
"There is only one thing I want, and
| that is more grace"
Yes, blood-bought hearers, grace to live
| by and grace TO die by. Grace that saved
the publican, that saved Lydia, that saved
the dying thief, that saved the jaileT, that
saved me. But the riches OF
| that grace will not be fully
understood until heaven breaks in upon
the soul. An old Scotchman, who had
| been a soldier in one of the European
wars, was sick and dying in one Of our
American hospitals. His one desire was
to see Scotland and his old home, and
once again walk the heather Of the high
lands and to hear the bagpipes OF the
| Scotch regiments. The night that the old
| Scotch soldier died, a young man some
what reckless but kind hearted, got COM
| pany Of musicians 60 come and play under
/ tho old soldiers window, and among the
! instruments was a bagpipe. The instant
that the musicians began the dying old
4 man in delirium said:
''What's that, what's that9 Why It's the
/ regiments coming home. That's the tun0,
yes, that's the tune. Thank God, l have got
4 home once moreW
''Bonny Scotland and Bonny Doom"
were the last words he uttered he
passed up TO the highlands of the better
| country. And there are here to-day hum
dreds homesick for Heaven, some because
you have so many bereavsments, some be.
cause you have so many ailments, home
sick, very homesick, for the fatherland OF
Heaven, and the music that you want to
hear now is the song OF free grace, and the
music you want TO hear when you die is
! free grace, and forever before the throne
| Of God you will sing of the
Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though
| he was rich, for your sakes became poorI
Yes, yes, for our sakesl 1t was not on
| pleasure excursion that he came, for 70
was all pain. 1t was not on astronomical
exploration, for he knew this world as
well before he alighted as afterward. II
was not because he was compelled to come,
| for he volunteered. Il was not because it
was easy, for he knew that 10 would be
thorn, and spike, and hunger, and thirst,
and vociferation of angry mobs. For
your sakes! Wipe away your tears. To
/ forgive your wrong doing, 60 companion.
| ship your loneliness, to sooths your
sorrows, to sit with you by the new
made grave, to bind up your wounds In
! the ugly battle with the world and bring
| you home at last, kindling up the mists
| that fall on your dying vision with the
sunlight Of a glorious morn. For your
| sake! No, will change that. Paul win
/ AOb CdEbf a1Au CuIAob VIII unb GAAo H. 4
change 1t, for must get TO the blessed
ness of the text myself, and so says
| "For our sakes !" For we all have our
| temptations, and bereavements, and con-
ficts. For our sakesl We who deserve
for our sins to be expatriatod into world
as much poorer than this as this earth
| was poorer than Heaven. For our sakss
! But what fruitful coming down TO take
us gloriously up.
/ Wbau rfa wvaa Tfra.
bazus, who was attending him, showed
the King rent in his garment. The King
said: "How shall I mend it?" "By Civ
| ing it to me-" said Tirebazus. Then the
King gave him the robe, but commanded
h inn never TO wear It, as it would be inap-
propriate.
See the startling and comforting fact I
While our Prince throws Off the habit, he
not only allows us to wear it, but com.
mands US to wear it, and IL will become as
we'll, and for the poverties OF our spiritual
state we may put on the splendors of
| Heavenly regalement. For our sakesi o,
the personally Of this reIigioni Not
an abstraction, not an arch un-
| der which we walk to behold elaborate
masonary, not an ice castle like that
which Empress Elizabeth Of Russia over
/ a hundred years ago ordered constructed,
/ winter with It's trowsl of crystal cement
/ ing the huge blocks that had been quar-
/ ried from the frozen rivers Of the North;
/ but fathers house, with a wide hearth
| cracking hearty welcome. A religion
/ of warmth and inspiration, and light and
cheer; something we can take into our
hearts, and homes, and business recrea-
tions, and joys and sorrows. Not an
unmanageable gift, like the galley
presented to Ptolemy, which required
| four thousand men to row, and its
draught of water was so great that 10
could not come near the shore, but some
thing you can run up any stream OF an
| noyance, however shallow. EnchRntment
now, enrichment for ever
Right about facet for you are going I'm
| the wrong direction. While You are IN a
favorable mood for IL, enter into life.
| Here and Just now decide every thing
| that makes for peace and Heaven. Agas-
! siz says that he has stood at one place I'm
the Alps where he could throw a chip into
! the water I'm one direction and it would
roll on into the German Ocean, or he
could throw fchip into the water In
another direction and IL would reach the
Black sea by the Danube, or hs could
| throw a chip in another direction, and 10
| would enter the mediterranean by the
/ Rhone. How far apart the Mediterranean,
| and the Black sea, and the German oceani
! Standing to-day this Alps OF Gospel
privilege, you can project your soul into
right currents, and it will roll on into the
ocean Of life, or project 10 In tho wrong
direction, and it will roll into the sea Of
| death. But how far apart the two dis
tancesi May God help Us to appreciate
more and more the momentous meaning Of
/ our text.
The seven wise men Of Greece were
| chiefly known each for one apothegm:
Solon for the saying, "Know thysolf;"
Perlander for the saying, Nothing is inn
possible to Industry" Chito for the say
| ing, "Consider the end;" Thalss for the
| saying, "Suretyship is the precursor OF
ruin.D
And Paul, distinguished for a thousand
utterances, might well afford 10 be mem-
! orable for the saying:
You know the grace OF our Lord Jesus Christ,
that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes be-
! came poor, that ye through his poverty might
| be rich.